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- adjective Alternative spelling of
what you see is what you get . - adjective computing Maintaining close correspondence between screen image and printed image.
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Examples
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And then there are all the mistakes I never see until I have an actual what-you-see-is-what-you-get copy in front of me.
Proofs, galleys, first pages... Glenda Larke 2009
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In many ways I am a what-you-see-is-what-you-get kind of blogger because my blog is nothing more than a personal blog that is totally selfish working out the voices in my head.
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And then there are all the mistakes I never see until I have an actual what-you-see-is-what-you-get copy in front of me.
Archive 2009-04-01 Glenda Larke 2009
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The limitation of bandwidth, server space, and necessity of coding each web page in HTML (hypertext markup language) rather than through a wysiwyg (what-you-see-is-what-you-get interface like many web pages today) encouraged concise and pithy posts and copious links.
Blogging Archaeology and the Archaeology of Blogging - The Weblog. History and Taxonomy 2008
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• The what-you-see-is-what-you-get scenario: The Cuban regime is telling the truth, and Castro will be back in a few months, retaking control of the government when he is physically able to do so.
August 2006 2006
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The Effect Generator is whole new way of creating Flash content online for free, within a simple but powerful what-you-see-is-what-you-get drag-and-drop graphical editing environment.
Archive 2008-07-01 2008
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In many ways I am a what-you-see-is-what-you-get kind of blogger because my blog is nothing more than a personal blog that is totally selfish working out the voices in my head.
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A player drafted from college is more of a what-you-see-is-what-you-get proposition than high school players who look as if they will have power.
covering baseball for USATODAY.com.No sure-fire No. 1 in draft 2000
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ASHCROFT: No, it's not a shock to me that this president would have that kind of transparent, what-you-see-is-what-you-get openness in a respectful way.
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I wish him the very best of luck, for Peter has always been a what-you-see-is-what-you-get type of person.
An Autobiography Heyns, Penny & Lemke, Gary 2002
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